Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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rent

/ˈɹɛnt/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of rend

Forms rents renting rented

  1. noun A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property. “I am asking £300 a week rent.”
  2. noun A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
  3. noun (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. “A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.”
  4. noun An object for which rent is charged or paid.
  5. noun (obsolete) Income; revenue.
  6. noun (video games) An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.
  7. verb (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent. “I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.”
  8. verb (transitive, informal) To grant a lease in return for rent. “We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.”
  9. verb (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
  10. verb (intransitive, informal) To be leased or let for rent. “The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.”
  11. noun A tear or rip in some surface.
  12. noun A division or schism.
  13. adjective That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

rip snag split tear economic rent lease let hire charter engage take

Etymology

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

See rend.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To rant. [R. & Obs.] Hudibras.
  2. verb imp. & p. p. of Rend.
  3. noun An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
  4. noun Figuratively, a schim; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Etymology [From Rend.]

Etymology [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See Render.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rent”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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